Partisans
The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s

This is a book mainly set in The Balkans in the middle of World War II. Three Yugoslavs set out from Rome to warn The Partisans about the German battle plan that will soon be launched against them. They are accompanied by a number of strange people who are not what they seem. In fact, no one in this......more

I picked this up in a free book shelf in a diner in Roslyn, WA - because I've always wanted to read de Bernieres' book "Daughter of the Partisan" or something like that - and wanted a book for reading on the bus. As it turned out, traffic was stopped for an hour so I read a lot of this that day. It'......more

Manly Men drinking Manly Beverages and wielding Manly Weapons and Manly Mercy in WWII. Pathetic Bitchy Women whose Beauty is only exceeded by their ability to Criticize the Men. Two saving graces to this boring book: 1. It forced me to Wikipedia The Yugoslav Partisans and I learned something. 2. One of......more

Alistair MacLean’s 1982 ‘adventure’ Partisans is one of the least enjoyable books I’ve read. I feared it wouldn’t be great having been disappointed with a number of his later outings, the last two that I read being The Way to Dusty Death (1973) and Circus (1975). He published three more thrillers af......more

Three Allied agents are inserted into Yugoslavian territory to aid the Royalist against the Partisans by delivering a German battle plan. But all is not what it seems to be.Their own people try to kill them. They are also saddled with four people they need to escort. Non-stop adventure,......more